By JIM ROSS NCWV Media CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Bruce Moore has looked at the numbers when it comes to the most recent proposal to eliminate West Virginia’s personal property taxes, and he knows who the winners and losers would be. The big winners, he says, would be people living in[Read More…]
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Body scanners to be installed in jail system
By COURTNEY HESSLER The Herald-Dispatch BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va. — The Western Regional Jail in Barboursville will be the first to receive a body scanner before a statewide implementation, which is part of a continuing effort to combat contraband entering jail facilities. Lawrence Messina, director of communications for the state Department of Military[Read More…]
White vows strong voice for West Virginia minorities
By CASEY JUNKINS The Intelligencer and Wheeling News-Register WHEELING, W.Va. — William White said as long as he remains part of Gov. Jim Justice’s administration, minorities will have a strong voice in the West Virginia State Capitol. White is the executive director of the Herbert Henderson Office of Minority Affairs,[Read More…]
Breitbart exec Steve Bannon to back Morrisey in Senate race
By JAKE ZUCKERMAN Charleston Gazette-Mail CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Steve Bannon, the controversial executive chairman of Breitbart news and a former White House adviser, has stepped behind the West Virginia attorney general’s U.S. Senate campaign. Bannon, former chief strategist for President Donald Trump, has offered his personal support to Attorney General[Read More…]
Supporters of Human Rights Commission come together in Fairmont
By KAITLYN NEFF Times West Virginian FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Supporters of the Fairmont Human Rights Commission along with Marion County for Progress gathered on Sunday in front of the Marion County Courthouse to celebrate the ordinance’s passage with a march around the city of Fairmont. According to a Marion County[Read More…]
Delegate Westfall, Superintendent Hess craft bills to help state schools
Staff report Jackson Newspapers CHARLESTON, W.Va. — THE ISSUE: Delegate Steve Westfall and Superintendent of Schools Blaine Hess have collaborated to craft several legislative bills aimed at improving schools locally and statewide. LOCAL IMPACT: Many of the bills are inspired to combat challenging issues for Jackson County school system, but[Read More…]
Trump, Hannity to visit Morgantown for town hall, protests starting to form
By Adrianne Uphold The Daily Athenaeum MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Protests are in the works following the announcement of President Trump’s invitation-only town hall meeting Wednesday in Morgantown alongside Fox News personality, Sean Hannity. Mountaineers for Progress Protest Chairman Alissa Ponzurick is organizing a protest against Trump at 3:30 p.m. in[Read More…]
Shakespeare’s First Folio on display at the Huntington Museum of Art
Staff report The Herald-Dispatch HUNTINGTON, W.Va. ± It’s fitting that the folio that gave us the perfect Halloween line, “double, double, toil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble,” will be on display at the Huntington Museum of Art through October. William Shakespeare’s First Folio was the first published collection of[Read More…]
5 inducted into Marshall journalism hall of fame
The Herald-Dispatch Staff Report HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Alumni, faculty, friends and family gathered Sept. 29 at Marshall University’s Memorial Student Center to celebrate the career accomplishments of five inductees to the W. Page Pitt School of Journalism & Mass Communications Hall of Fame. Marshall University President Jerome Gilbert welcomed the crowd[Read More…]
Music Hall of Fame and Carnegie Hall join forces
By TINA ALVEY The Register-Herald LEWISBURG, W.Va. — Standing amid an impressive array of memorabilia in Carnegie Hall’s Museum Gallery, Ali Johnston explained that the new partnership between the Lewisburg landmark and the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame is a “win-win” situation for both. Forged in August, the partnership[Read More…]